Graduate Student In Indiana Charged in Threat on Reagan

AP

Published: May 18, 1988

INDIANAPOLIS, May 17—
A Federal grand jury indicted a graduate student today on charges he threatened the life of President Reagan and other public officials in letters and telephone calls.

Mohammed Farhad Khorrami, 37, a student at Indiana University in Bloomington, was indicted on four counts of threatening injury to the President and two counts of telephone harassment.

Mr. Khorrami, an Iranian, is accused of threatening the Jewish National Fund office in New York City in January and February. He also allegedly threatened the former Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger, Israeli officials and Jews in general.

Mr. Khorrami has applied for legal alien status under the Immigration and Naturalization Service's amnesty program. He faces penalties of more than five years in prison and up to $275,000 if convicted, officials said.